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The Greek Myths by Robert Graves (1955) Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece by Gustav Schwab (1837) Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece by W. H. D. Rouse (1934) Bulfinch's Mythology (originally published as three volumes) by Thomas Bulfinch (1855) Mythology by Edith Hamilton (1942) Myths of the Ancient Greeks by Richard P. Martin (2003)
The title page of Étienne Clavier's 1805 edition and French translation of the Bibliotheca. The Bibliotheca (Ancient Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη, Bibliothēkē, 'Library'), is a compendium of Greek myths and heroic legends, genealogical tables and histories arranged in three books, generally dated to the first or second century AD.
Jean-Pierre Vernant was a historian and anthropologist specialized on ancient Greece.He was approached by the editor Maurice Olender of Éditions du Seuil, which had published two scholarly works by Vernant in its series La librairie du XXe siècle; the series was celebrating its tenth anniversary, and Olender asked Vernant to write his retellings of Greek myths and turn them into a book for ...
Greek text available from the same website. Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Morals translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, Ph.D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Mythos is a book written by British author Stephen Fry, published in 2017.It is a retelling of a number of ancient Greek myths selected by Fry. It was followed by Fry's 2018 book Heroes, a retelling of myths about Greek heroes, [1] as well as a play titled Mythos: A Trilogy, [2] which premiered at the Shaw Festival in Ontario, Canada, in 2018 [3] and was set to tour the UK starting in August 2019.
From Hera to Medusa (and high-flying Icarus!), we’ve got them all.
In Greek mythology, Callidice (/ k ə ˈ l ɪ d ɪ s iː /; Ancient Greek: Καλλιδίκη, romanized: Kallidíkē, lit. 'beautiful justice') is a queen of Thesprotia in Epirus, an ancient region in northwestern Greece.
The Greek Myths (1955) is a mythography, a compendium of Greek mythology, with comments and analyses, by the poet and writer Robert Graves. Many editions of the book separate it into two volumes. Abridged editions of the work contain only the myths and leave out Graves's commentary.